First year as a teaching assistant

At first I didn’t believe that this was a job, although I love the academic career path but in Egypt it is so not the job for such path…

Doing some worthless donkey work

I don’t know what made me much encouraged to try the job in this post

as you can see, even the title is not related, but i found myself attracted to that job..

So…

the first year is about to end, my pre-masters year is ending though

gotta say i did enjoy it, enjoyed learning and teaching, really enjoyed being useful

enjoyed being a colleague for such awesome TAs

about the pre-masters, most of the subjects where just time-wasting, some where useful but not quit the time having them or even related to what I should care for

and to some point I don’t care..

about me teaching,

I won’t claim that I was even good, but I have the excuse of being newly hired for such job, and I will try to improve myself as much as I can, that’s why I chose to teach subjects I am relatively good at, to be learning how to teach more than learning the subject itself, and to compromise the time wasted in my worthless lectures..

so I assume to have the chance for further improvement in the future after finishing my pre-masters year.

Although this year I had got my lovely bike, where I use it to go wherever I want including the college, some liked the idea, some didn’t

actually I could see some students smiling/laughing on seeing me riding the bike, and once again, I don’t care

I would really love to see this idea spread, which I am noticing it is, I’ve seen a good number of cyclers in the streets in Cairo and Alexandria

And I hope to have a bicycles park in the college or the university then to be spread everywhere else, but it needs some others to come with their bicycles, not only me

Again I’d really love to see this idea spread, specially in the university

About me being a government employee, I did enjoy laughing on seeing how stupid, worthless and time-wasting the regulations and rules are..

And how programmed the old employees are, and how much your smile pisses them off!!

one last thing, being a teaching assistant made me able to see students types, and see my friends and my self in them, and how much I wanted to tell my-student-self just shut-up and listen!

note, If you have any comment about me as a TA, please let me know, I might not show the comment but I will take it into considiration

what I hope for next year is to improve my teaching ability and participate in activities, specially my beloved ACM chapter, acmASCIS

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